Boo Who?

I want to thank Brie for Booing me!  She has just started a special ed blog, so hop over and show her some love by following her very new blog.

Here are the rules for this linky:

1. Choose a fellow blogger that has MORE followers.

2. A blogger that has about the SAME number of followers .

3. Someone that has LESS followers.

4. Highlight their blogs with links to encourage others to check them out.
5. Don't forget to let your fellow bloggers know that you shared about them.

6. Lastly, leave them some love by offering them a goody from your store as their "treat."

Link up:

More followers:
Have you heard of Shuna at Pocket Full of Kinders?  If not, you need to head over to her blog asap.  Her blog is so entertaining and full of amazing freebies and wonderful ideas.  I love to read all of her posts.


Less followers:
I love Scips's blog.  Her blog is dedicated to teaching others to love math as much as she does.  She is also one of the most helpful teachers on the forum at TpT.  If you need math help, visit Scipi.

About the same followers: I recently found out that the kinder blog I've been following for months is actually written by a fellow Tennessean.  She works in the school where my husband teaches and where our daughters attend. Kerri's blog is full of freebies.  She always has wonderful ideas and teaching materials ready to share.  

I want to thank 2nd Grade Pad for starting this fun linky!  Head over to 2nd Grade Pad to link up and see all of the other amazing blogs!

Trick or Treat?  Treat of course!  Who doesn't like a freebie?  I've created several free banners.  Head down one post and pick up all three freebies!  Happy Halloween!

5 Fab Friday Freebies

I'm linking up with Betsy at Notebooking Nook.  She is compiling a huge list of FREEBIES.  We all love freebies!  I am sharing 5 of my freebies.  I hope you will head over and check out the entire list.  I'm sure you will find a ton of good freebies.

My favorite freebies this week are mostly fall related.  I hope you find something you can use in your classroom!
1.  Halloween Banner:  Simply print, cut, and laminate.  Add in a cute ribbon and you have a wonderful decoration for your classroom or your house.

2.  Halloween Snatch Game: A quick and easy game for students to practice their addition or multiplication skills.  It's a perfect workstation activity.

3.  Monster Reading Pointers:  I love using these because my students always lose their place while we are reading. These pointers are super easy to make and the kids love to use them.  No more losing their place while reading.

4.  I'm Thankful:  This is an activity to get kids to look at what they have instead of their growing wish list.  I like to challenge my students to think of as many blessings as they can.  After a few groans, the students start writing. After a few minutes, it becomes a silent challenge to see who can think of the most blessings.  It's nice to see what children are thankful for.

5.  Electronic Pocket Chart:  This is a smartboard file.  It's simply an electronic version of your pocket chart. It's a great way to have kids to make words.  This can be used as a whole class lesson or used as a workstation.

After you download these freebies, head over to the main list and download those as well.  Happy Friday!

Dr. Seuss Week in Review

I hope everyone has had a wonderful time celebrating the wonderful world of Dr. Seuss.  We have had so much fun this week.  I wish I had time to take pictures of everything that we did.

Monday: We read There's a Wocket in my Pocket and created our own creatures in pockets.  I got the idea from here.  In S.S. we read a biography on Dr. Seuss.  You can get it here.

Tuesday: In math, we made a goldfish graph.  (It is included in the packet with the Dr. Seuss bio from above.)  We created our own version of There's a Wocket in my Pocket class book. You can get it here.  In science, we read Bartholomew and the Oobleck and made oobleck.  We did several activities to decide if oobleck is a solid or a liquid.  I got my ideas from here.

Wednesday: We read Green Eggs and Ham and made a list of all 50 words that are used in the book.  (A recording sheet is included in the Dr. Seuss bio unit.)  In science we read The Lorax and discussed air pollution and how it effects the environment.

Thursday: We made our own class book based on Green Eggs and Ham.  You can get it here.  We also made cute Cat in the Hat pop-ups.  You can get it here.

Friday:  We read The Cat in the Hat and sequenced the book.  I got my idea from here.  We also played Dr. Seuss reading snatch games.  You can get it here.  In math we played Tree Snatch games adding 3 numbers.  You can get it here or here.

It was also dress up as your favorite storybook character.  I decided to dress up even though a student has a fear of people in costumes.  We have been working for months trying to help her get over her fear.  (Last year, she ran out of the classroom when she saw me dressed up!)  This year, she looked at me and said, "Creepy!" and that was that.  After about an hour looking at me, she asked to try on my cat nose and seemed just fine with the costumes.  She's made a lot of progress with it!